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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no way to put a price tag on the damage done to Union Carbide's image in the 38 countries, from Nigeria to New Zealand, where it has factories and the 130 nations in which it sells products. In West Germany, protesters last week spray-painted the words POISONERS and PIGS on the walls of a Union Carbide plant and dropped two gasoline bombs at the site. One exploded, but there were no injuries...
Mason said he expected that $3 million would be the price-tag demanded by Harvard for the building...
...paintings for sale fetch as much as $10,000. Some of the delicately carved decorative decoys commonly bring $3,000. "Hell," explained one craftsman, defending his costly wares, "it took me a week just to do the bill." He meant his duck's bill, not his price tag...
...price tag could also be out of this world: an estimated $84 billion. NASA protests that the expense is not much greater than the cost of the original Apollo pro gram in today's dollars, a mere $73 billion...
...with MATEP, Harvard has spent seven years fighting in the courts, testing and retesting the diesel engines, and installing an elaborate air monitoring system--all of which have driven the plant's price tag up 500 percent. Every day the diesels remain idle, the hospitals lose money because the plant is not realizing the energy savings that would make it worthwhile...